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Motorola has urged the Full Federal Court to uphold a decision dismissing an amended defence by Chinese rival Hytera Communications that sought to blame the US tech company for not alerting it to the alleged theft of its source code sooner, saying a similar argument had already failed in an ongoing trade secrets case in the US.
Maurice Blackburn disregarded emails by the artist behind the iconic Fearless Girl statue questioning whether she would be breaching her contract with US asset management firm State Street in selling the law firm a replica, a court has heard.
The head of a group of gay 'pups' suing for defamation over a Network Ten report investigating the death of his partner from silicone genital injections has told the Federal Court that he was "forced out" of a senior position at Google as a result of the broadcast.
The Federal Court has again sided with with the Commissioner of Patents in a challenge to a ruling that found two patents for a computer-implemented invention were not a manner of manufacture.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has won its case against defunct financial advisor Dover Financial and its former director, who famously collapsed during the banking royal commission, with a judge saying the company engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct through its inaptly titled ‘client protection policy’.
A hearing for approval of a $190 million settlement in a historic class action over unpaid wages to thousands of Indigenous workers has been adjourned to next month after a judge appointed a referee to scrutinise the fees charged by the law firm behind the case.
The judge overseeing a class action against car maker Ford over its allegedly defective PowerShift transmission has shot down the applicant's request for additional discovery, saying that after multiple delays in the case "the well has run dry".
A prominent Queensland family has won almost $3.7 million in damages after a court found the Nine Network was "recklessly indifferent" to the truth of a 60 Minutes' report alleging the collapse of a wall at the family's quarry was to blame for floods that killed 12 people.
A judge has consolidated competing shareholder class actions against builder Lendlease brought by rival plaintiffs law firms, but has rejected the firms' bid to jointly run the litigation and says one of them must go.
HWL Ebsworth claims it was justified in firing a former partner for being dishonest about why he printed out confidential material, as the firm challenges a $450,000 unfair dismissal judgment.